Assemblage is an art form that combines various everyday objects, fragments of natural materials, and other items to create three-dimensional collages. The pieces are arranged and sometimes modified by the artist to form a new work with new meanings and relationships between the components. Jean Dubuffet introduced the term "assemblage" in the 1950s to describe his collages made from things like butterfly wings, though the technique was experimented with earlier by cubist and Dadaist artists like Picasso, Duchamp, Schwitters, and Ernst. Assemblages can be single objects or collections that incorporate a variety of materials opened to ideas and connections.

1. Assemblage (fr. assemblage - the gathering, collecting, collection) - the
art - the composition of the finished item, three-dimensional variety of
collage. Work consisting of various items of everyday use, useless
fragments of natural forms, all possible facilities.
The work arises from objects that are created by the author
asamblażu, but only used by him, and sometimes a specially crafted or
adapted (eg, painted, cut off from the whole, combined with something
else, destroyed). Assemblage can be used as a single object produced by
a combination of other or may be a type of collection, a collection of
objects. This can be described as a kind of spatial collage open to all the
material and summaries of their ideas and connections. Individual
fragments asamblażu may be stuck together, bound, placed in such a
common container, loosely laid, hung next to each other, etc. Thanks
asamblażom fragments are created with new meanings, new
relationships between the meanings, which carry a constituent part.
The term assemblage was introduced in the early fifties of the
twentieth century, Jean Dubuffet, who created a series of collage with
butterfly wings and gave a cycle of assemblages d'empreintes. It should
be noted, however, that the use of "nieartystycznych" had already
experimented plastic great cubism: Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso,
and dadaists (eg collages by Kurt Schwitters and Max Ernst). Jean
Dubuffet can therefore be considered only as the creator of the name of
this technique.
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